Our beliefs about career have a profound impact on how our careers unfold. The document encourages reflecting on what we believe about career and how those beliefs may be limiting our potential. It provides examples of beliefs like "my career is my agenda" and "my career should excite and fulfill me." Making a list of one's own career beliefs can reveal which may be limiting and which could be rewritten to drive career goals. Choosing empowering beliefs about career can lead to different decisions, actions, and results.

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Career Beliefs: Challenging The Truths
Limiting Your Highest Career Potential 31 October 2017
What we choose to believe about "career" has a deep and lasting impact on the ways in which our careers play
out. Take some time to challenge your beliefs and find perspective and energy to bring to your career journey.
We talk a lot about career values. We talk a lot about
career drivers. Today, I want to make a mention of an
area less written about - but arguably far more important.
Career Beliefs.
Beliefs are the stories we tell ourselves to explain our
(view of the) world. They're feelings of certainty, at any
given moment, about the meaning of something.
And when we're looking at our career, whether under the
heading of performance improvement, career acceleration,
career shift or something else, it can be hugely useful to
reflect on what we're choosing to believe about career.
(And it's specifically what I choose to believe about career,
because it's a choice. It's within my power to change.
Unlike our values, our beliefs we get to choose.
To (re-)write the story.)
Beliefs: Our Driving Force
Beliefs are fundamental. Because it's those beliefs / stories /
feelings of certainty that we have emotional reactions to.
(Not the thing itself.)
And it's those beliefs / stories / feelings of certainty - and
the accompanying emotional reactions - that drive my
behaviours. I act in accordance with my beliefs.
Here's what I (choose to) believe about "career" …
 My career is my agenda.
Not someone else's.
 My career should excite and fulfil me.
And it's mine to design, accordingly.
 My career should facilitate my life design.
And it's mine to design, accordingly.
 My career is 100% my responsibility.
And I love that!
And these beliefs I don't hold just for myself. I believe these
truths (let that word go - I'll come to "truth" in a moment!)
for you, us and everyone. Which, rather unsurprisingly, is
a big part of why I do what I do.
Now, these statements may or may not be the "truth"
(whatever that is!). But they're truths for me. And that's
enough. Because I'm not going to go around preaching

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these as truths for us all. But I am going to make use of
them privately to fuel my career.
(Funny how we call other people's beliefs "opinion" and
our own beliefs "the truth". But that's a whole other post.)
I know (believe?) these beliefs have had, and continue to
have, a very positive effect on my various careers, to date.
Just as I know (believe?) that believing something else
would have had a quite different effect!
Different choices. Different decisions. Different actions.
Different results. Different everything.
 If we were working on a new business: we'd start
with what we believe.
 If we were working on a new movement: we'd start
with what we believe.
 If we're working on your career: let's start with what
you believe.
Choosing to Believe
So, what are you choosing to believe about "career"?
Make a list now. Take a piece of paper and write at the
top: "Regarding "career", I believe … "
And with your list, notice:
 Which of my beliefs are
limiting my career potential?
 Which of my beliefs are keeping me stuck?
 Which of my beliefs are not
supporting my career goals?
 Which of my beliefs do I need
to rewrite to drive my career?
(Having trouble distinguishing thoughts as fact or belief?
Try this: give your belief to someone else. A friend. A
colleague. Whomever. Imagine them saying it. And in
that context: what would you call it? Fact? Or opinion?
The latter is a belief.)
Take the time now to reflect on what you're choosing to
believe about your career. And to consider your highest
possible career potential, if you were to wholeheartedly
upgrade those beliefs.
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high-performing professional women PIVOT into rapid career advancement.
His mission is to inspire possibility in others: to help us excel in careers without
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